Harry Pratt Judson (December 20, 1849 – March 4, 1927) was an American educator andhistorian who served as thesecond president of theUniversity of Chicago from 1907 to 1923.

Judson was born atJamestown, New York and educated atWilliams College (A.B., 1870; A.M., 1883), where he was a brother of theDelta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Epsilon chapter). Judson taught at Troy High School inTroy, New York, from 1870 to 1885 and wasprofessor of history andlecturer onpedagogics at theUniversity of Minnesota from 1885 to 1892.

Moving to theUniversity of Chicago in 1892, Judson became professor ofpolitical science andhead dean of the colleges and in 1894 was named head of the department of political science and dean of the faculty of arts, literature, and science. He served as actingpresident of the University of Chicago from 1906 to 1907 and was named the university's second president in 1907, serving until 1923. During his tenure, Judson forced Georgiana Simpson (the second Black woman to receive a PhD) to move off-campus after several white students complained about her presence in the dorms.^[1][2]

Judson became a member of theGeneral Education Board in 1906 and of theRockefeller Foundation in 1913.

Besides editing a series of readers, he is author of:

• History of the Troy Citizens' Corps (1884).
• Cæsar's Army (1888).
• Europe in the Nineteenth Century (1894; third edition, revised, 1901).
• The Growth of the American Nation (1895; second edition, 1900).
• The Higher Education as a Training for Business (1896; second edition, 1911).
• The Government ofIllinois (1900).
• The Essentials of a Written Constitution (1903).
• Our Federal Republic (1925).

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905).New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.{{cite encyclopedia}}:Missing or empty|title= (help)

• Works by or about Harry Pratt Judson at theInternet Archive
• Guide to the Harry Pratt Judson Papers 1889-1901 at theUniversity of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
• Guide to the University of Chicago Office of the President, Harper, Judson and Burton Administrations Records 1869-1925 at theUniversity of Chicago Special Collections Research Center

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